Women who attend ETSU may have a reason to feel safer, especially if they attend the self-defense course that ETSU’s Office of Public Safety will conduct beginning in February.Every year, it is estimated that 3 percent of college women experience a completed or attempted rape during a typical college year.

The course, part of the RAD (Rape Aggression Defense) system will consist of three courses.

Each course will work, according to a press release from Public Safety, to “teach women self defensive concepts and techniques against various types of assault, by utilizing easy, effective and proven self-defense tactics.”

According to the press release, “The program is a comprehensive course for women that begins with awareness, prevention risk reduction, and avoidance, while progressing to the basics of hands-on defensive training and the use and power of words.”

Classes begin Feb. 2 and are held every Tuesday in the CPA from 5 p.m. until 9 p.m.

The RAD program is currently taught in over 450 colleges, police departments, and women’s centers throughout the United States and Canada. For more information, or to register for the class, contact Officer Amanda Worley via e-mail at worleya@etsu.edu.

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